Friday, August 15, 2008

Another judge bars Gitmo legal adviser from advising another Gitmo trial.

Thinkprogress:

Yesterday, a federal judge barred Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, the legal adviser at Guantanamo Bay, “from acting as a legal adviser in the trial of an accused terrorist at the Guantánamo war court.” Judge Stephen Henley ruled that Hartmann’s aggressive advocacy of the trials by military commission had “compromised the objectivity necessary to dispassionately and fairly evaluate the evidence and prepare the post-trial evaluation.” Earlier this year, Hartmann was barred from the trial from Salim Hamdan’s trial after a separate military judge found he had “exerted improper influence on the case.” Hartmann still has oversight over 19 other Guantanamo cases

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